Institutional knowledge is locked in file shares
The answer exists in a drawing from 2014. Nobody can find it, so it gets re-engineered.
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Engineering & EPC
Twenty years of drawings, finally searchable.
Design-data search, drawing and specification intelligence, and simulation compute for engineering, EPC and construction-technology firms.
The three things we hear in the first meeting.
If none of these sound like you, we are probably not the right call yet — and we will say so.
Tender documents are read by hand
Hundreds of pages of specification, scanned for the clauses that change the price.
Simulation queues are the bottleneck
Engineers wait for compute while a licence sits idle on someone else's desk.
The value is in the archive, not the new model.
Engineering firms rarely need a novel model. They need the last two decades of drawings, specifications and as-builts to answer a question in seconds instead of a week.
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Search across drawings and documents.
Titles, revisions, embedded text and metadata, unified into one searchable index.
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Specification extraction.
Clauses, tolerances and deviations pulled out of tender documents with the page reference attached.
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Simulation compute on demand.
Burst GPU and CPU capacity so solver queues stop setting the project schedule.
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IP stays yours.
Everything runs in infrastructure you control. Your design archive does not train anyone else's model.
Who we build for
Different teams, different first project. The platform underneath is the same.
Design and drawing offices
Revision-aware search across CAD archives, drawing registers and as-builts.
Tendering and estimation
Specification extraction and deviation flagging across large tender packs.
Simulation and analysis
Managed HPC and GPU capacity with queueing that matches how your team works.
Construction technology
AI features for platforms serving builders, developers and site teams.
What we actually deliver
Four things, in this order. Each one is useful on its own.
Archive discovery
What you have, what state it is in, and what becomes searchable first.
Design knowledge platform
Unified search across drawings, specifications, correspondence and as-builts.
Tender intelligence
Clause extraction, comparison against your standard position and a deviation report.
Simulation compute
Dedicated or burst capacity, managed, with cost visible per project.
How an engineering engagement runs
No surprises about sequence, and no invoice before there is something to look at.
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Archive audit
We look at what is actually in the file shares before promising anything about searching it.
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Index one discipline
One discipline or one project type first, so the value is visible in weeks.
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Roll out the index
Extend across disciplines, with access controls matching your project structure.
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Run it
Managed indexing, compute and support, so engineers never think about the platform.
What good looks like
- Seconds
- To find a 2014 detail
- Revision-aware
- Always the current drawing
- On-demand
- Simulation capacity, no queue
- Yours
- Design IP never leaves your tenancy
The Engineering AI readiness checklist
The questions we work through before recommending anything — data readiness, hosting constraints, review process and the running cost at year two. Use it with any vendor.
Engineering questions we get asked first
Short answers. Longer ones are a conversation.
Our drawings are a mess of folders and naming conventions. Is that a problem?
It is normal, and it is the first thing we assess. A lot of the value comes from the index reconciling inconsistent naming and revision practice, rather than requiring you to clean up first.
Can it read scanned drawings and old PDFs?
Yes, through OCR and layout analysis. Accuracy depends on scan quality, which is why we benchmark against a sample of your worst documents, not your best.
Does our design IP get used to train a model?
No. Everything runs in infrastructure you control, and your content is not used to train any shared model. This is stated in the contract, not just the architecture.
Can you handle native CAD formats?
We extract metadata, text and where needed geometry from common formats. Which formats matter for you is settled during the archive audit.
What about simulation licences?
We provide the compute; your existing solver licences apply. Where licence pooling is the bottleneck rather than hardware, we will tell you that instead of selling you GPUs.
How long does it take to find a drawing today?
If the honest answer is measured in days, that is the project.
- A reply within one working day, from an engineer rather than an account manager.
- An honest read on whether this is worth doing now, or in a year.
- No marketing list. Your details reach the solutions team and stop there.